Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Illinois State Bar Association's Section on Human Rights Law has published a book review I have written. I reviewed Prof. Karen Greenberg's book, 'Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State,’ which deals in part with the USA PATRIOT Act and related matters.

The citation is to The Illinois State Bar Association’s Human Rights Newsletter, Vol. 43 #2, October 2016.

It is reprinted below.

Book Review

‘Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State’
Karen J. Greenberg
Crown Publishing, New York, 2016
$28 Hardcover

A Compelling Legal History of a Contemporary Civil Rights Catastrophe

Karen Greenberg’s ‘Rogue Justice’ is a Brief, but Encyclopedic Account of Modern Times 

by John Otrompke

It is a rude awakening to realize that, in the past 16 years, an entire generation in the U.S. has reached young adulthood, without ever knowing life before 9/11. They have lived only during the longest ‘war’ in American history, perhaps inured to a never-ending stream of public massacres. They have been told that Americans have lost our civil rights, but perhaps they can’t really know what that means.

Prof. Karen Greenberg, PhD, does an excellent job of providing a concise, compelling history of the legal aspects of this brutal, dystopian modern era. In ‘Rogue Justice: The Making of The Security State’ (Crown Publishing, New York, 2016), Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, unwinds much of the entire narrative in 266 pages.

Every landmark event of this era finds its locus in the text: the 1998 African embassy bombings, the World Trade Center attacks, the passage of the PATRIOT Act, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the second invasion of Iraq . More recent phenomenon are also chronicled: Bin Laden’s killing, the Tsarnaev atrocities in April 2013, the release of the government’s report on torture, and the disclosures of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.

To be sure, Greenberg is a historian, not a lawyer, although she teaches a course on national security issues and the law at Fordham Law School. She touches on almost each facet of the retrenchments in American civil liberties made in the past 15 years, with particular emphasis on the apparently universal secret surveillance, the torture policy, and, ultimately, the extra-judicial killing of American citizens by drones commanded by the president.

The work is unbiased, for the author is very unstinting in her criticism not only of the Bush, but of the Obama administration, too. This slim, well-researched volume also goes into the nitty-gritty of recent legal phenomenon such as indefinite detention without trial, growingly harsh punishments for whistle blowers, undisclosed use of surveillance evidence in criminal prosecutions, and even a body of secret law.

   An International Law Perspective Essential to Evaluating American Foreign Policy

In documenting these developments, Greenberg has given us an inside look at the official policy-shaping acts of influential lawyers inside the executive’s Office of Legal Counsel, and other branches of the federal government, new and old, through successive presidential administrations.  The author has developed this exhaustively-researched history through numerous interviews, personal observation of dozens of trials of jihadists, and even a personal visit to Guantanamo Bay.

Greenberg’s conclusion could be pithily summed up in her statement on p. 40 that the past era has constituted “an undeclared war being waged not on a particular enemy but on an idea, terrorism, which, like most ideas, is probably impossible to eradicate.”

While I admire Greenberg’s work, and respect her methodology, there are some changes I would like to see, should the book go to a second edition. First, while ‘Rogue Justice’ is a popular history rather than a legal text, she touches on enough matters of scholarly and practical interest that the book could use numbered footnotes and better citation to legal authority complying with Blue Book style. 

Additionally, there are several issues under international law, the inclusion of which could supplement Greenberg’s perspective. Shortly after 9/11, for example, some experts said that because Bin Laden was not alleged to be acting on behalf of a nation-state, but instead was international criminals, the U.S. was required to demand the trial or extradition of the perpetrators prior to invading Afghanistan (see, for example, “Legal Control of International Terrorism: A Policy-Oriented Assessment,” C. Bassiouni, 43 Harv. Int'l L.J. 83, (Winter 2002)).

Then, in 2003, there was the Bush administration’s violation of the U.N. Charter when France and other Security Council members disclosed their intent to veto the second Iraq war (“We don’t need a permission slip to defend our country.”) It seems that many of the world’s continuing problems stem from that oft-criticized invasion: ISIS, the deadly refugee catastrophe in Syria, perhaps even a fracture in the European Union.

      Foreigners May Prefer POW Status to Criminal Trial in Federal Court

Additionally, I disagree with one of Greenberg’s primary themes: that the federal courts are preferable as a locus for the trial of enemy combatants or jihadis, compared to courts martial. As Greenberg has written elsewhere:

            “These vexing issues could be far more readily resolved in U.S. federal courts, where  
           handling classified material under the Classified Information Procedures Act is a time-honored 
           and effective mechanism — and where judges have  addressed the difficult issues involved in
           terrorism cases for three decades now. In fact, over 400 cases have been prosecuted in federal   
           courts since 9/11.”

Those 28 pages on the Saudis, and these 5 trials of 9/11 plotters: Are we looking for closure in the wrong place?” K. Greenberg, New York Daily News, May 23, 2016 (editorial).

I doubt if a federal court would be more fair to certain jihadis than the military commissions she describes. As she describes it, the case of Ahmed Ghailani (p. 189) is a powerful illustration of this argument. 

Ghailani, indicted for a role in the pre-9/11 bombings of African embassies in 1998 in which 224 were killed, was tried not by a military commission, but before a federal court in the Southern District of New York. Although indicted on 285 charges, the jury convicted Ghailani of only one: conspiring to destroy property and buildings. He was not of any charges involving the deaths of human beings. Nonetheless, Ghailani was sentenced to life. But from a defense perspective, an act of war by a combatant arguably should not be prosecuted as a crime, unless it’s a war crime. Had Ghailani been treated as a prisoner-of-war, instead of a federal criminal defendant, arguably he could expect to go home some day.

Greenberg also describes another decision favoring a foreign combatant as retrogressive. The conviction of Salim Hamdan by a military commission for material support was  reversed by the D.C. district court after he had served his sentence and been released (p. 248). The federal court found that Hamdan could not be convicted of material support, because that was not a crime when the acts in question took place, long before 2006.  

Greenberg says that the 2012 decision “threatened to bring [progress] entirely to a standstill...The military commissions were not only failing to make forward progress; they appeared to be on the verge of moving backward.” 

The author tells us that today, these cases (when tried) are almost always brought in federal court. But I have grave misgivings about the expanding assertion of universal criminal jurisdiction by U.S. federal courts, especially when the U.S. has repeatedly refused to recognize the universal jurisdiction of other international bodies.  

       Americans Can Be POWs, but POWs Have Habeus Corpus Rights

Perhaps what Prof. Greenberg is concerned about is the prospect of American dissidents being tried by military commissions. After all, Greenberg describes several other recent manifestations of executive totalitarianism, such as surveillance, torture, and extrajudicial disappearances, as well as international aggression.

As a bit of backstory, perhaps one reason that fear has not come to pass (at least not yet) has to do with a series of decisions by the Supreme Court, which, when it has acted at all in recent years, has generally issued opinions supporting principles of humanism and fairness in this context.

As Prof. Greenberg notes, the Supreme Court first held that an American cannot be tried by a military court in the civil war-era case Ex parte Milligan (p. 89). But the High Court reached a different decision during World War II in Ex parte Quirin (p. 65), which was distinguished from Milligan because the Americans being tried by military commission in Quirin had actually been a formal part of the German army.

But a different issue is presented, as Greenberg says, by the important question of whether federal courts have any habeus corpus jurisdiction over POWs at all. Many years ago, the Supreme Court told us no, in the World War II-era case of Johnson v Eisentrager. The individuals in Eisentrager (who were not Americans) could not avail themselves of federal habeus corpus review, because jurisdiction only lay in courts in the jurisdiction in the which prisoners are located. 

So why do federal courts have jurisdiction over POWs today? The principle of Eisentrager was overruled, the Supreme Court told us in Rasul v Bush, by a rather esoteric Supreme Court case from 1973, called Braden v 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky, which did not involve prisoners-of-war. In Braden, the Supreme Court ruled that a habeus petition can be brought in any district court in which  the custodian can be served, regardless of the location of the prisoner.

That is how foreign combatants came to have access to the great writ: in an act of legal jiu-jitsu, the Supreme Court relied on an obscure 1973 opinion, authored by Justice Brennan, to protect human rights in the midst of the civil liberties catastrophe that followed in the wake of 9/11.

        An Unprecedented Expansion of Freedom in the 21st Century

So for young adults, how has life changed in the U.S. since the PATRIOT Act? Surprisingly, in many ways, Americans are far freer today than we were in 2001. 

In the past era, there were no LGBTQ rights under the U.S. Constitution. Cannabis was universally criminalized here, and the Second Amendment was not thought to protect an individual right to own a firearm. While massacres in the U.S. have become a phenomenon of appalling recurrence and regularity, they have been most often committed by Americans. 

In short, as a matter of visible law, many Americans have been seeing an unprecedented expansion, not a contraction, of our civil rights. This contrasts with the experience of many generations in the Middle East, going back to the period after World War I, for whom American foreign policy was often anything but a boon.

Developments since 2001 make it clear that radical change can be effectuated in the federal courts. When it has acted at all, the Roberts Court has often acted to promote human freedom, sometimes in surprising ways. But a foreign combatant might prefer prisoner-of-war status to a trial in a federal court.

‘Rogue Justice’ is a gripping account of a true history which moves through the history of the past 15 years with the energy of a whirlwind. While I may disagree with one of her themes, Greenberg’s diligent research has made a significant contribution to the legal history of current events.

(c) 2016 John J. Otrompke, JD

Saturday, November 5, 2016

News from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Suicides Among Very Young Children on the Rise

in Black Children and White Girls


Research in this Area Hindered by Statistical Difficulties and IRB Requirements

by John Otrompke

     Suicides among very young children in the U.S. have been on the increase in certain subgroups since 1993, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control discussed at the AACAP meeting last week.

    Among children in the U.S. between the ages of five and 11 years old, 657 committed suicide between 93 to 2012, and 87 did so in 2013 and 2014.

While the suicide rate among children has remained stable over the past 20 years, the rate has increased among black children and white girls, according to a poster presented last week at the annual meeting of AACAP in New York (poster 1.55, ‘Suicide Trends Among Young Children in the United States from 1993 to 2014’ [Logan, et al]).

The poster presented the first subgroup analyses of suicides among children in the given age range, according to Kseniya Yershova, PhD, deputy scientific director at the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, who is a co-author.

A Significant Increase in Child Suicides Since 1993

  The rate of suicides among black children increased from 1.37 per million in the first five-year period between 1993 and the end of 1997, to 2.96 per million in the final two-year period from 2013 to 2014, for a incidence rate of 1.24, according to Vladislav Mandzhiyev, a biomedical engineering student and a co-author who co-presented the poster on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The increase was found to be statistically significant (p<.05)

  The suicide rate among white girls also increased to a degree which was statistically significant, going from 0.24 per million in the first five-year period, to 0.75 per million in the two-year period (incidence rate ratio 1.63).

   However, the increase among white girls in the U.S. was masked when the data were analyzed by the moving average method of statistical analysis; instead, the change was only notable when analyzed by period trend analysis.

  Studies of suicides in young children have been complicated by low incidence and high fluctuation, according to the abstract. “Prior authors couldn’t analyze the suicide rate among young girls because there were not enough cases. But when we added two additional years of data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control to the data from 1993 to 2012, we found we could do the analysis,” Yershova explained.

  For white children as a whole, the rate went from 1.14 suicides per million to 0.99 per million, indicating a decrease, according to Mandzhiyev. Historically, the rate of suicides was higher among the white population, the poster said.

Early Identification and Treatment Important

  “Suicide is an expression of extreme suffering. The children are learning to regulate their emotions, so you cannot skip the youngest group. If they go to the emergency room for a toothache, the provider needs to ask about thoughts or feelings about death, even in the little guys. Doctors need to ask about possible risk factors for suicide in the pediatrician’s office,” said Yershova.

  “The children need the support of their parents in learning to regulate their emotions, so providers need to work with their caregivers,” she added.
  Guns, suffocation, and poison are the three most common methods of suicide in the age range, according to Yershova. “In older groups, the availability of prescription drugs, especially pain medication, may also be behind the increase, inasmuch as girls do use poison as a method much more frequently than boys,” she said, noting that poison is much more likely as a suicide method if the poison is not locked up.  

  “It would be nice to know the reasons for the increase, and there is a methodology called the psychological autopsy, in which providers interview the family,” said Yershova.

  However, the practice of psychological autopsy can’t be undertaken universally, as ethics approval is required, she added. 







Friday, April 22, 2016

Offering Expense-free coverage from ASCO

Dear readers,

I will be attending and covering ASCO 2016 in Chicago. I am seeking additional assignments, and do not require reimbursement for an expenses. I am seeking assignments without deadlines prior to June 9.

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I am a veteran ASCO correspondent. Credentials available upon request. Contact info below.

Sincerely,

John
John_Otrompke@yahoo.com

Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Preliminary List of Chicago Conference and Meetings

Here is a list of Chicago events for 2016. Happy reading!

John Otrompke
847-766-4352

2016 Chicago Conferences and Meetings

February

Business Marketing Association’s Chicago's 2016 Tower Awards
Feb. 2

Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting
Feb. 25-27
  March

International Home and Housewares Show
March 5-8

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
March 9-12

American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists Psychiatry Update
March 10-12

America’s Beauty Show
March 12-14 

National Arts Education Association
March 17-19

April

American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions
April 2-4


Association of National Advertisers’ Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference
April 6-7

Manufacturing IT & Innovation Summit
April 7-8

American Occupational Therapy Association
April 7-10

Black Women’s Expo
April 8-10

Diabetes Expo
April 9 

Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Course
April 16

Coverings Show
April 18-21

World Drug Safety Americas 2016
April 20-21

The Federal Laboratory Consortium National Meeting, 
April 26-28

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting
April 30- May 4




May

Advisen’s Executive Risk Insights Conference
May 10

Cyber Risk Insights Conference
May 11
June

American Society of Clinical Oncology
June 3-7

National Nurses United 2016 Meeting
June 12-20

Cardiac Rhythm Device Summit: Implantation, Management, and Follow Up
June 17-19

American Water Works Association Annual Conference
June 19-22

5th Annual Drug Repositioning, Repurposing and Rescue Conference
June 21-22

Food Marketing Institute FMI Connect
June 21-23

International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video 
June 22-24





July

Advertising Specialty Institute
July 13-14

Astellas Women Summit
July 13-15

Cell Symposia: Transcriptional Regulation in Development and Disease
July 16-18, Chicago

American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings
July 30- August 4

September

International Manufacturing Technology Show
Sept. 12-17

October

Human Resources Technology®Conference
Oct. 5-7

American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting
Oct. 15-18

American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting
Oct. 22-25

International Conference on Lupus
Oct. 27-28





November

Business Marketing Association's 38th Marketing Law Conference-
Nov. 9-11, Chicago

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium
Nov. 12-16

American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week
Nov. 15-20

Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting
Nov. 27-Dec. 2, Chicago

December

AHIP’s Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum
Dec. 5-9, Chicago



I am pleased to share some of my recent publications

Hello everyone,

With the turning of the year, I am happy to share some updates to my partial list of select publications.

You may find the more full list below. Additional details available upon request.

As always, thank you for your interest in my work, and please contact me to discuss rates and opportunities.

Thanks,

John Otrompke
847-766-4352
John_Otrompke@yahoo.com

Risk Factors for Melanoma and Genetic Testing
DERMATOLOGY TIMES, January 7, 2016

Tumor Treating Fields Device Shows Survival Advantage
TARGETED ONCOLOGY, December 18, 2015

Bills, Quills and Stills offers something for everyone, but most of all the serious scholar
Illinois State Bar Association’s HUMAN RIGHTS Newsletter, September 2015

A World of Difference: Biosimilars and Biobetters Offer Unique Benefits- and Risks
BIOPROCESS INTERNATIONAL, June 2015

Recap ADA 2015
Elsevier’s PRACTICE UPDATE, June 5-7 2015

HIMSS Keynote Speakers Highlight the Speed of Innovation
BIO-IT WORLD, April 17, 2015

Radioactive Iodine Overused in Papillary Thyroid Cancer
CANCER NETWORK, March 9, 2015


Important Conferences and Events for 2016

I hope you all are having a great 2016. Thank you for your interest in my work. Following is a list of what I discern to be some of the more important science and medicine conferences for 2016.

Please contact me to discuss rates if interested.

Thanks!

John Otrompke
847-766-4352

Important Conferences and Meetings in 2016

January

Biology of Down Syndrome: Impacts Across the Biomedical Spectrum
Jan. 10-14, Santa Fe

Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic and Clinical Conference
Jan. 15-18, Orlando

International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare
Jan. 16-20, San Diego

Gordon Research Conference & Seminar “Origins of Life”
Jan. 16-22, Galveston

 Mayo Clinic Cardiology Update at South Beach: A Focus on Prevention
Jan. 18-21, Miami Beach

Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Emergent and Urgent Challenges
Jan. 18-22, Sarasota, FLA

The Brain and Recovery: An Update on Neuroscience of Addiction
Jan. 19, Ypsilanti, MI

Symposium in Structural Heart Disease Interventions
Jan. 21-22, Celebration, FLA

Melanoma 2016: 26th Annual Cutaneous Malignancy Update
Jan. 23-24, San Diego

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
Jan. 23-27, San Diego

Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical, Pathological and Translational Mechanisms
Jan. 24-27, Santa Fe, NM

Immunogenicity and Immunotoxicity Conference
(with the Immunotherapeutics Summit)
Jan. 25-26, San Diego

 3rd Allergy, Asthma, & COPD Conference
Jan. 25-26, San Diego

Hospital Medicine: Management of the Hospitalized Adult Patient
Jan. 25-29, Sarasota, FLA

Drug Formulation, Solubility and Bioavailability Summit
Jan. 25-27, Philadelphia

8th Annual T-Cell Lymphoma Forum
Jan. 28-31, San Francisco

Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Update
Jan. 29-31, San Diego

February

Heart Failure Summit
Feb. 4-5, Celebration, FLA

Annual Symposium on Anti-Angiogenesis and Immune Therapies for Cancer
Feb. 4-6, San Diego




AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(with the Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI))
Feb. 12-17, Phoenix

The American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference
Feb. 17-19, Los Angeles

Genome Editing and Engineering Congress
Feb. 18-19, San Diego

American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 5th Annual Global Conference on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology
Feb. 21-24, Houston

Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016: Ocean Sciences at the Interface.
Feb. 21-26, New Orleans

American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting
Feb. 22-27, Las Vegas

Precision: Breast Cancer World Summit 
Feb. 23-24, Boston

Annual Minimally Invasive Surgery Symposium
Feb. 23-26, Las Vegas

The Future of Healthcare
Feb. 24-26, Fort Lauderdale

Implementing Systems-Level Change for Health Equity: A Partnership Summit
Feb. 25-26, New York 

Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy Congress
Feb. 27- March 1, Las Vegas
The American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions
Feb. 28- March 1, Phoenix

Human Genome Meeting
Feb. 28- March 2, Houston

Health Care Information and Management Systems Society Annual Meeting (HIMSS)
Feb. 29- March 4, Las Vegas

March

Biosimilars and Follow-on Biologics 2016 Americas
March 2-4, Philadelphia

AHIP Health Insurance Exchanges Forum
March 8, Washington, DC

The American Meteorological Society and the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology: Forum on Observing the Environment from the Ground Up
March 8-9, Washington, DC

AHIP National Health Policy Conference
March 9-10, Washington, DC

Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW)
March 12-18, Fairbanks, Alaska

The Steven J. Parker Memorial Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Conference
March 18-19, Washington, DC




The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Conference
March 19, Eastgate, UK

MGMA/AMA Collaborate in Practice Conference
March 20-22, Colorado Springs

Aging in America
March 20-24, Washington, DC

Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT 2016)
March 21-23, Washington, DC

Biomarker Summit
March 21-23, San Diego

Advisen’s Casualty Insights Conference
March 31, NYC

Treating Depression 2016
March 24, London, UK

National Science Teachers Association National Convention
March 31–April 3, Nashville

April

ACC
April 2-4, Chicago

Society of Interventional Radiology
April 2-7, Vancouver


Medical-Legal Partnership Summit
April 6-8, Indianapolis

Association of National Advertisers Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference
April 6-7, Chicago

NextMed (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality)
April 7-9, Los Angeles

Seventh International Symposium on Sentinel Node Biopsy in Head and Neck Cancer
April 8-9, Rome

Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
April 10-13, San Diego

12th Annual Asthma and COPD Conference
April 11-12, London, UK

15th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference
April 11-14, Minneapolis

2016 Spring Hospital & Healthcare IT Conference
April 13-15, Atlanta

CHEST World Congress 2016
April 15-17, Shanghai, China

American Association for Cancer Research
April 16-20, New Orleans

4th Annual Biosimilars and Biobetters Congress
April 18-19, London, UK

2nd Annual Translational Microbiome Conference
April 20-21, Boston

World Drug Safety Americas 2016
April 20-21, Chicago

International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International
April 21-24, Budapest

Advisen’s Transaction Insurance Insights Conference
April 27, NYC

World Congress on Controversies in Multiple Myeloma
April 28-30, Paris

American Association of Neurological Surgeons
April 30- May 4, Chicago

May

Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
May 4-7, Orlando

Heart Rhythm Society’s 37th Annual Scientific Sessions
May 4-7, San Francisco

SIS World Congress on Breast Healthcare
May 5-8, Warsaw, Poland




Advisen’s Executive Risk Insights Conference
(with the Advisen Cyber Risk Insights Conference)
May 10, Chicago

International Symposium on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
May 10-13, Montreal

World Congress for NeuroRehabilitation
May 10-13, Philadelphia

Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference
May 11-12, Washington, DC

American College of Radiology
May 15-19, Washington, DC

Cancer Research: Experts Meeting on Gynecologic Oncology
May 19, San Antonio, TX

Molecular Diagnostics World Summit 2016
May 19-20, London

American Institute of Architects Convention
May 19-21, Philadelphia

American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting
May 19-21, Long Beach, CA

GynecologicOncology 2016
May 19-21, San Antonio

National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meetings
May 20-22, Louisville

World Congress of the World Institute of Pain
May 20-23, New York

Digestive Disease Week
May 21-24, San Diego

SIAM Conference on Imaging Science,
May 23-26, Albuquerque, NM

American College Health Association Annual Meeting
May 31-June 4, San Francisco

June

American Society of Clinical Oncology
June 3-7

RIMS Legislative Summit
June 6-7, Washington, D.C.

BIO
June 6-9, San Francisco

AHIP’s Institute and Expo
June 15-17, Las Vegas

ASM Microbe 2016 
(the American Society of Microbiology General Meeting with 
the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)) 
June 16-20, Boston

5th Annual Drug Repositioning, Repurposing and Rescue Conference
June 21-22



International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting
June 22-25, San Francisco

The International Symposium on Acute Kidney Injury in Children 
June 24-26, Cincinnati

July

International Congress on Naturopathic Medicine
July 1-3, Barcelona

European Federation of Biotechnology’s 17th European Congress on Biotechnology
July 3-6, Krakow, Poland

2016 Queensland Ornithological Conference
July 9, St Lucia, Australia

Annual Conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders 
(with the 8th Biennial Conference of The International Society for Affective Disorders)
July 13-16, Amsterdam

Cell Symposia: Transcriptional Regulation in Development and Disease
July 16-18, Chicago

International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management
July 17-22, Toronto

International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management
July 18-20, Rome

International Academy of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions
July 30-Aug. 1, Boston


ASM Conferences on Streptococcal Genetics
July 31- Aug. 3, Washington, DC
August

2nd ASM Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution
August 4–7, 2016 | Washington, DC

American Psychological Association
August 4-7, Denver

Annual Association of Black Psychologists International Convention
Aug. 10-13, Arlington VA

Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union and Cooper Ornithological Society August 16, 2016 - August 20, 2016, Washington, DC

American Sociological Association: Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?
August 20-23, Seattle

European Society of Cardiology
August 27-31, Rome

World Congress on Cancers of the Skin 
(with the Congress of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology)
Aug. 31-Sept. 3, Vienna

September

New York State Ornithological Association
Sept. 9-11, Elmira

6th ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes
September 9–12, 2016 | Seattle, WA

International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) World Congress
September 18- 22, Calgary, Canada

4th World Parkinson Congress 
Sept. 20-23, Portland OR

40th Annual Meeting of The Waterbird Society
September 20-23, New Bern, North Carolina

Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association
Sept. 21-25, Denver

The Western Field Ornithologists 2016 Conference
Sept. 28- Oct. 2, Humboldt County, California
    
October

Cell Symposia: Technology. Biology. Data Science
Oct. 9-11, Berkeley

American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly 2016
Oct. 15-18, Las Vegas

American College of Surgeons
Oct. 16-20, Washington, DC

Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Annual Meeting
Oct. 21-23, Baltimore

American Society of Anesthesiologists
Oct. 22-26, Chicago



HIV Glasgow
Oct. 23-26, Glasgow, UK

National Conferences on Medicare and Medicaid and Dual Eligibles Summit
Oct. 23-27, Washington, DC

RIMS Enterprise Risk Management Conference 2016
October 24-25, Atlanta

ASM Conference on Infection and Cancer
October 24–27, 2016 | Washington, DC

Infectious Disease Week
Oct. 26-30, New Orleans

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)
Oct. 29-Nov. 2, Washington DC

American Public Health Association 2016 Annual Meeting and Expo: Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health
Oct. 29- Nov. 2, Denver

MGMA 2016 Annual Conference
Oct 30- Nov. 2, San Francisco

November

Neuroscience Education Institute Psychopharmacology Congress
Nov. 3-6, Colorado Springs

Raptor Research Foundation
Nov. 4-8, Sacramento




Welsh Ornithological Society National Conference 2016
November 5, 2016, Myddfai

BAA's 38th Marketing Law Conference-
Nov. 9-11, Chicago

Annual International Conference on ADHD
Nov. 12-14, New Orleans

Molecular and Cellular Basis of Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention
Nov. 12-15, Tampa, FLA

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
(with ReSuscitation Science Symposium and Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Symposium)
Nov. 12-16, New Orleans

Neuroscience 2016
Nov. 12-16, San Diego

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium
Nov. 12-16, Chicago

American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 
Nov. 15-20, 2016, Chicago

International Congress and National Symposium of Clinical and Health Psychology on Children and Adolescents
Nov. 17-19, Barcelona

Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting
Nov. 27-Dec. 2, Chicago

December

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
San Antonio

World Conference on Lung Cancer
Dec. 4-7, Vienna

AHIP’s Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum
Dec. 5-9, Chicago

ASM Conference on Antibacterial Development
December 11–14, 2016 | Washington, DC